For pest control companies

What a pest control
website costs.

You will find plenty of offers online at prices that look too good to be true, and plenty of agencies that will not name a figure at all. Here is the honest range, what separates each band, what gets billed later, and what I charge. Then I will build you a free working demo of your own site if you want one.

The demo is a real page you can click through, chat with, and book a time on.

The market

Three bands, and
one of them is a trap.

This is the trade with the noisiest cheap end. Sites are advertised at prices that barely cover an hour of work, so it is worth being clear about what each band actually contains.

Band one
$0 to $500
Plus a monthly builder fee

A template you set up yourself, or one of the very cheap offers you will have seen advertised. Some are perfectly honest template installs. Others are a stock layout with your name dropped in.

What you are really buyingA page with your number on it. If your work comes from referrals that is enough. Be careful about who holds the login, because at this price the site is often not really yours.
Band two
$1,500 to $5,000
One time, sometimes plus hosting

A custom build. Separate pages for the pests that actually pay, your treatment process explained, your licence displayed, online booking. Most serious pest control companies land here.

What you are really buyingA site that can sign somebody up to a recurring plan without a phone call. That is the difference that matters in this trade and it is what the extra money buys.
Band three
$8,000 and up
Plus a monthly retainer

The full system. Route and scheduling integration, recurring billing, CRM, call tracking, review automation, ad landing pages per pest, reporting. Sold with management on top.

What you are really buyingAn operations platform. Right for a company running routes across a metro area. Considerably more than a growing local operation needs.
What drives it

They would rather
book online than call you.

Pest control has a quirk almost no other trade has. A meaningful share of your customers do not want to talk to anybody. Telling a stranger on the phone that there are roaches in the kitchen or bedbugs in the mattress is embarrassing, and given the choice they will book online at eleven at night instead.

That means the booking flow is not a convenience on a pest control site, it is the main product. Every job that goes through it is one you never had to answer the phone for, and companies with a site that only offers a phone number are quietly losing those people to whoever made it easier.

The second thing is recurring. A one off treatment is a small job. A quarterly plan is a customer for years, and whether the website can sign somebody up to one is the single biggest difference between a cheap build and a worthwhile one.

Booking without a phone call. Real availability, a real slot, a confirmation. Not a form that promises somebody will ring back. This is the highest value thing on a pest control site.
Recurring plans, sold on the page. Quarterly and monthly plans are where the business is. Signing somebody up online rather than talking them into it is a build task and it pays for itself.
Each pest is a separate search. Bedbugs, termites, roaches, rodents and wasps are different urgencies, different prices and different people. One combined page serves all of them badly.
Urgency without alarm. Bedbugs mean somebody wants a van tomorrow, termites mean a survey and a large invoice. The tone that fits one is wrong for the other, and getting both right takes actual writing.
Licence and safety, stated plainly. You are applying chemicals in a house with children and pets. Your licence, what you use and how safe it is answers the question every customer has and most never ask.
Discretion. Unmarked or discreet service matters to a share of your customers more than price does. Saying so on the page wins jobs that a competitor never hears about.
Before you sign

The four questions
that change the price.

Ask these of every quote you are comparing, including mine, and especially of the very cheap offers.

1
At that price, what exactly am I getting? The cheap end of this trade is full of offers that cover a template install and nothing else. Ask what happens after launch, and who you contact when something breaks.
2
Can it sign somebody up to a recurring plan? This is the question that decides whether the site pays for itself. A booking form is not the same as an enrolment, and the difference is rarely made clear in a quote.
3
Is real online booking included? A form that says we will call you back is not booking. In a trade where people prefer not to phone, that distinction is worth more than any design choice.
4
Who owns the domain and the Google profile? Both belong in your name. At the cheap end especially, check this before you pay, because recovering a domain later is the expensive kind of mistake.
Free, before anything
See yours built
before you pay.

Judging a website from a proposal is guesswork. So I do it backwards. I build a working pest control site with your company name on it, you go through it on your own phone, and money comes up afterwards.

Build my free pest control demo
  • A real page you can scroll and tap, not a mockup.
  • The chat assistant handles a bedbug enquiry the way it would handle yours.
  • It offers treatment times and takes the booking, so you can see where a lead lands.
  • No card, no discovery call, no contract in front of you first.
  • If it is not right, nothing happens. It cost you a click.
The arithmetic

Work it out with
your own numbers.

Every agency page tells you a website is an investment and not an expense. That is easy to write about money that is not yours, so do the arithmetic with your own numbers instead.

Do not use a single treatment for this. Take the profit you keep on one customer on a quarterly plan across a full year, and divide the cost of the website by that. In this trade the answer is usually a handful of customers, because a plan keeps paying long after the build is finished.

Then the half nobody does. Count the people who landed on your site late at night, saw only a phone number, and booked with somebody else because they did not want to have the conversation. You cannot count them exactly, which is the problem, but you can see the hours in your own booking data and draw the obvious conclusion.

If both numbers come out small, do not buy anything yet. That is a real answer, and it is why the demo is free.

Compare it against your other lead costs. Ads, door hangers, a lead app taking a cut, directory listings. The website competes with those, not with zero.
Count the plan, not the treatment. A quarterly customer is worth many single visits. Judging the site on one off job value undersells it badly.
Nobody can promise you a number. Anyone quoting an exact return on a site they have not built yet is guessing, and that tells you how to read the rest of their proposal.
Watch when bookings happen. If a real share of them land in the evening, that is proof the booking flow is doing work the phone never could.
What I charge

No quote needed.
Here it is.

Start at the bottom and move up only when the website is genuinely what is holding you back. Most pest control companies never need band three.

Review Machine
$99/mo
Keep your site, fix the reviews
  • Review request after every job
  • Sent by text and email, with a follow up
  • One tap through to your Google page
  • Works with the website you already have
See how it works
Most companies start here
Starter
$297/mo
Site and follow up, built for you
  • A pest control website built and hosted
  • Missed call text back
  • Automated review requests
  • Online booking
  • Monthly report
Start with a free demo
Custom System
$3,000+
One time, plus $297/mo hosting
  • Everything in Starter
  • Fully custom design, and the site is yours
  • Longer follow up sequences
  • Ready for Google Ads traffic
Talk it through

There is a larger managed package as well. It is on the main page, and most pest control companies reading this do not need it yet.

Questions

Straight answers.

How much should a pest control company spend on a website?
Enough that people can book without phoning you, and enough that it can sign somebody up to a recurring plan. Those two things are the whole argument. A small operation living off referrals does not need an eight thousand dollar build, but the very cheapest offers usually cannot do either of them. Start in the middle of the range and move up only when the site is the bottleneck.
Why are there so many very cheap pest control website offers?
Because a stock template with a company name dropped into it can be produced in an hour, and this trade gets targeted for it. Some of those offers are honest template installs and there is nothing wrong with that. The thing to check is what happens after launch, who you contact when it breaks, and whether the domain is registered in your name.
Do I need a separate page for each pest?
For the ones that pay, yes. Bedbugs, termites, roaches and rodents are searched separately, carry very different prices and bring very different levels of urgency, so one combined page serves all of them poorly. Start with your two most profitable pests and add the others once you can see which pages bring bookings.
Should the website take bookings or just enquiries?
Bookings, more than in almost any other trade. A meaningful share of pest control customers would rather not describe the problem to a stranger on the phone, and given a real online slot they will take it late at night. A form that promises a call back loses those people to whoever made it easier.
Will a new website get me ranking for pest control near me?
Not on its own, and anybody promising it is guessing. Those searches are dominated by the map results, which run on your Google Business Profile, your review count and how recent the reviews are. The website supports that and converts the visitors once they land. It does not replace it.
Can I see it before I pay anything?
Yes, that is what the free demo is for. You get a working pest control site with your company name on it, including the chat assistant answering a customer, before any money changes hands or anything is signed. If you do not like it, that is the end of it.
Get started

Get your pest control
demo built free.

Tell me about your company and I will build it, then message you on WhatsApp when it is ready to look at.

If you have one I will look at it first, so the demo is a straight comparison. If you do not, that is fine too.

No card. No contract. You see it before you decide.

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